An Unending Terror Funded By Those Who Ought Stop It
By: Giorgio Provinciali
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Khmelnytskyi As we write this article, Moscow troops are attacking a maternity hospital in Sumy, and have left 22,000 households without electricity in Kharkiv in addition to several thousand more in Pryluky, in the Chernihiv oblast. At the time of the collapse, 11 children, 35 adult patients, and over 120 clinic employees were under the burning roof of that maternity hospital.
The 15 violent explosions that caused the blackout in Kharkiv were caused by drones launched against civilian targets that had already been devastated by glide bombs less than 24 hours earlier. Meanwhile, another 30 Russian drones are attacking at least seven districts of Zaporizhia, just as they did the previous day.
All of this is happening in broad daylight, following other simultaneous nighttime attacks that have continued unabated, as well as recent daytime ones.
The twisted logic connecting these relentless, layered attacks to the ones that marked Russias full-scale invasion of Ukraine isescalation through impunity: the aggressor strikes more fiercely because the cost to him remains minimal.
In the 1,321 days since the night of February 24, 2022, no one in the West has done anything concrete to stop Putin.
This is the core issue that the Ukrainian resistance leader highlighted, openly criticizing an international communitythat Putin derides for offering zero real reaction to his blows.
The Russian dictator has rejected all proposals to stop the war because he has no interest in doing so.
As Lithuanian President Gitanas Naus?da stated, The European Union is financially on Russias side because what it pays to buy energy resources exceeds all the support it provides to Ukraine.
This has not been happening for three and a half years but for nearly twelve, i.e. since the worlds weak reaction to the occupation of Crimea gave credence to Russias propensity for war.
According to several independent estimates (Bruegel,CREA, andStatista 2025, to name a few),the EU continues to pay around 4 5 billion per month to Russia for fossil fuels, while total assistance to Kyiv in 2024 2025 is about 90 100 billion, which is much less. Moreover, aid to Ukraine is not distributed evenly but in installments and includes loans, guarantees, and often outdated war materials, whose value is determined by the donor.After ten years of war and half-hearted sanctions, in 2024, the EU imported 21.9 billion worth of Russian fossil fuels, while net financial aid to Ukraine was 18.7 billion. Looking at only the main importers excluding all other EU countries Moscow has received monthly donations of 1.1 1.2 billion this year, roughly 17 20% more than what Brussels allocates for direct financial support to Ukraine.
As Naus?da pointed out,such inconsistency and inertia will soon drive everyone to despair becausethe EU is effectively financing a war against itself.
Moscow has increased Geran drone production to 2,700 units per month. These are the Russian version of the Iranian Shahed, armed withhigh-explosive,incendiary,thermobaric, orclusterwarheads. Not the cheaper Gerbera decoys or FPV drones, which Russia has still managed to improve enough to reach the center of Kramatorsk via fiber optics and some areas of the front via LTE.
As we explained on these pages on Saturday, Russian engineers have modified the trajectories, launch modes, and even the hardware of the Iskander-M and Kinzhal missiles to evade the few Patriot and Samp/T systems Ukraine is deploying.
In his harsh appeal to the West, which Ukraine defends, President Zelensky announced that102,785 foreign components were found inside the 549 launchers used by Moscow in Sundays combined attack.Shortly before, the HUR hadexplainedthat half of them are Chinese. The remainder are produced primarily by the United States, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, the Czech Republic, and the Netherlands.
On that occasion, the Russian Federation destroyed eight apartment buildings and an equal number of villas in Zaporizhia, left 73,000 households in that oblast without power, killed an entire family in Lviv, overwhelmed the nearby Sparrow industrial complex and the village of Lapaivka, devastated 27 settlements in Chernihiv, and then others in Ivano-Frankivsk, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odesa, and Kirovohrad, and nearly caused tragedy with a raid on Ukrainian railway infrastructure that grazed the convoy carrying over 100 Italian volunteers.
Although Angela Merkel continues to blame Poland and the Baltics for Russias war against the West, it is clear that the EU must instead look to those countries to provide thestrong and dignified responsethat Zelensky hopes for, not only for the good of his country but of the entire Union. As the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Kaja Kallas (Estonian), reiterated,Russia will not stop until it is forced to do so.
本應阻止的，卻在資助無盡的恐怖主義
作者：Giorgio Provinciali
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Khmelnytskyi在我們撰寫這篇文章之際，莫斯科的部隊正在襲擊蘇梅的一間婦產醫院，並已造成哈爾科夫有22,000戶家庭斷電，此外切爾尼戈夫州普裏盧基還有數千戶也受波及。（醫院）倒塌發生時，有11名兒童、35名成年病患，以及超過120名診所員工受困於該婦產醫院燃燒的屋頂下。
（圖：蘇梅遭俄羅斯聯邦襲擊的婦產醫院圖片由烏克蘭緊急服務部門提供）
（圖：蘇梅遭俄羅斯聯邦襲擊的婦產醫院圖片由烏克蘭緊急服務部門提供）
導致哈爾科夫停電的15起劇烈爆炸，是由針對平民目標發射的無人機所引起，這些目標早已在不到24小時前被滑翔炸彈摧毀。與此同時，另有30架俄羅斯無人機正在攻擊劄波羅熱至少七個地區，一如昨日前一天所為。
（圖：昨日俄羅斯襲擊劄波羅熱的結果圖片由烏克蘭緊急服務部門提供）
（圖：昨日俄羅斯襲擊劄波羅熱的結果圖片由烏克蘭緊急服務部門提供）
所有這些都發生在光天化日之下，繼其他同時發生的夜間襲擊事件，以及最近的日間襲擊事件，皆持續未歇。
（圖：昨日俄羅斯襲擊劄波羅熱的結果圖片由烏克蘭緊急服務部門提供）
將這些冷血地、分層的襲擊，以及標誌著俄羅斯全麵入侵烏克蘭的那些攻擊鏈接起來的扭曲邏輯，是有恃無恐地升級戰爭：侵略者更加凶猛地襲擊，因為他所付出的代價仍然微乎其微。
自2022年2月24日之夜以來的1,321天，西方沒有任何人采取任何具體行動來阻止普京。
這是烏克蘭抵抗運動領袖所強調的核心問題，他公開批評國際社會因為對普京的攻擊提供了毫無實質的回應，而受到普京的嘲笑。
俄羅斯獨裁者拒絕了所有停戰的提議，因為他對此毫無興趣。
正如立陶宛總統吉塔納斯瑙塞達所言，「由於歐盟用於購買俄羅斯能源的費用超過了它向烏克蘭提供的所有支援，因此歐洲聯盟在財務上站在了俄羅斯的一邊。」
這種情況不是持續了三年半，實際上是將近十二年，自世界對克裏米亞被占做出軟弱反應以來，俄羅斯的好戰已經被被動接受。
（圖：Alla在日托米爾一所被俄羅斯聯邦摧毀的小學內版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
根據幾項獨立評估（包括Bruegel、CREA和Statista 2025，僅舉幾例），歐盟繼續每月給俄羅斯支付約40億至50億歐元購買化石燃料，而2024年至2025年向基輔提供的援助總共約為900億至1000億歐元，要少得多。此外，對烏克蘭的援助不是平均分配的，而是分期付款，包括貸款、擔保，以及通常是過時的戰爭物資，其價值由捐助方決定。經過十餘年的戰爭和半心半意的製裁，2024年，歐盟進口了價值219億歐元的俄羅斯化石燃料，而對烏克蘭的淨財政援助為187億歐元。僅看主要的進口國不包括所有其他歐盟國家莫斯科今年收到的每月捐款為11億至12億歐元，大約比布魯塞爾分配給烏克蘭的直接財政援助多17%至20%。
正如瑙塞達所指出的那樣，「這種不一致和慣性很快就會使每個人都感到絕望，因為歐盟實際上是在資助一場對抗自己的戰爭。」
（圖：Alla在日托米爾一所被俄羅斯聯邦摧毀的小學內版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
莫斯科已將伊朗Geran無人機的產量提高到每月2700架。這些是俄羅斯版的伊朗沙赫德，裝備了高爆、燃燒彈、溫壓彈或集束彈頭。並非是較便宜的格蘭（Gerbera）誘餌彈或FPV無人機，但俄羅斯仍然設法改進到足以透過光纖到達克拉馬托爾斯克中心，並通過LTE到達前線的一些地區。
正如我們在星期六於此係列報導裏解釋的那樣，俄羅斯工程師修改了Iskander-M和Kinzhal導彈的軌跡、發射模式，甚至還修改了硬件，以規避烏克蘭部署的少量愛國者和山毛櫸/山地帶式防空係統。
（圖：這段影片是我在烏克蘭克拉馬托爾斯克拍攝的，版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
澤倫斯基總統在對烏克蘭所捍衛的西方發出的嚴厲呼籲中宣佈，在莫斯科週日的聯合襲擊中使用的549個發射器中，發現了102,785個外國零件。此前不久，情報總局解釋說，這些零件中有一半是來自中國。其餘主要由美國、台灣、英國、德國、瑞士、日本、捷克共和國和荷蘭生產。
在這種情況下，俄羅斯聯邦摧毀了劄波羅熱的八棟公寓大樓和相同數量的別墅，造成該州73,000戶家庭斷電，殺害了利沃夫的一整個家庭，癱瘓了附近的麻雀工業園區和拉帕伊夫卡村，摧毀了切爾尼希夫的27個定居點，然後摧毀了伊萬諾-弗蘭科夫斯克、蘇梅、哈爾科夫、赫爾鬆、敖德薩和基洛夫格勒等地的其他定居點，烏克蘭鐵路基礎設施遭到突襲，掠奪了載有100多名義大利誌願者的車隊，幾乎造成了悲劇。
（圖：在本週末遭到俄羅斯聯邦襲擊的火車內部圖片由烏克蘭檢察長辦公室提供。）
雖然安格拉默克爾繼續將俄羅斯對西方發動的戰爭歸咎於波蘭和波羅的海國家，但很明顯的是，歐盟反而必須仰賴這些國家對俄做出強而有力的回應，--這不僅是澤倫斯基所期盼的，也是為了他的國家以至整個歐盟的利益。正如歐盟外交事務高級代表卡婭卡拉斯（愛沙尼亞）重申的那樣，除非被迫，否則俄羅斯不會停止。
（圖：Alla在日托米爾一所被俄羅斯聯邦摧毀的小學內版權所有，Giorgio Provinciali）
